Unprecedented diarrheal outbreak erupts in UK as cases spike 3x above usual

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A sign directing people to a toilet facility during the Children's Day Parade, part of the Notting Hill Carnival celebration in west London on Sunday August 27, 2023.

Enlarge / A sign directing people to a toilet facility during the Children's Day Parade, part of the Notting Hill Carnival celebration in west London on Sunday August 27, 2023. (credit: Getty | Yui Mok)

The United Kingdom is experiencing a dramatic outbreak—unprecedented in scale and magnitude—of diarrheal illnesses from the intestinal parasite, Cryptosporidium, aka Crypto.

According to a rapid communication published Thursday in the journal Eurosurveillance, UK health officials report that Crypto cases have exceeded the upper bounds of expected cases since mid-September, and an October peak saw cases roughly threefold above what is usual for this time of year. The outbreak is still ongoing.

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So far, it's unclear what's driving the extraordinary burst in cases. The outbreak has splattered into almost every region of all four UK nations. "Given the scale and geographical spread of the [case] exceedance across regions and nations of the UK, a single local exposure is an unlikely cause," the authors, led by officials at the United Kingdom Health Security Agency in London, wrote in the rapid report.

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